Scene Quotes

Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.

I don't want to make decisions about what I'm going to do before I'm doing it because I base my acting off my partner and off the other people in the scene.

It is always a nice feeling when you are challenged by a scene and you walk out of trailer and you go on set going I don't know. And then half an hour later you're walking back.

You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.

You would never dream of going on to play a scene in front of an audience at least without having rehearsed it. But you do somehow in front of a camera.

For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

It was lucky that Ralph [Fiennes] is someone who understands both film and theater and we were able to understand that scene so well before we took it to the set.

I like when I use music in film that it isn't just gilding the lily and it isn't telling you how to feel. It's giving you something, some other information that you cannot otherwise get in the scene.

Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.

Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.

We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.

Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

I think the only thing harder for a parent is having to sit down and watch you do a dying scene. I've died in three films, and my mom begs me, "Just tell me you don't die at the end."

In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.

You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.

You can lose your ability to play romantic scenes... you have to ensure that your mind is in the right place.

There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

When I listen to my scene partners and listen to their breathing allows me to be connected to them in scenes. I am not trying to multi task, not trying to talk on the phone, but in my character.

I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.

When Andy Carroll first appeared on the scene he was a tall skinny kid and his coordination was all over the place. He reminded me of a giraffe.

Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.

The thing that impressed everyone when he same on the scene as a 17 year old was he already spoke like a man. (on Michael Owen)

If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.

A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.

If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

Its always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

We came down here to see this teddible scene: people all pissed out of their minds and vomiting on themselves and all that and now, you know what? It's us

London scene consists of mostly foreigners. We see ourselves as British in many ways, but not English.

How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.

Yeah, I get a death scene, but what does that mean?

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

Im really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul.

When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene.

Reflection is a scene that I will cherish forever.

I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill.

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.